Prime Ticket

With Time Warner Cable putting the finishing touches on a new partnership with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the next question is what will happen to the team's current TV home, News Corp.'s Prime Ticket. Besides the Dodgers, Prime Ticket also has rights to the red-hot Clippers basketball franchise and Ducks hockey team. Its other Los Angeles sports channel -- Fox Sports West -- carries the Angels and Stanley Cup Champion Kings A Fox insider said there are no plans to consolidate Prime Ticket and Fox Sports West into one channel.

When: 7:30. Where: Staples Center. On the air: TV: Prime Ticket; Radio: 980, 1330. Records: Clippers 48-21, Pistons 25-42 before Friday. Record vs. Pistons: 1-0. Update: Chris Paul is four assists shy of reaching 6,000 in his career. Only six NBA players have reached that mark before the end of their ninth season. Blake Griffin has scored 20-plus points in 27 consecutive games, the sixth-longest streak in the NBA since the 2008-09 season.

Tuesday night, when the defending champion Los Angeles Kings opened defense of the Stanley Cup title at St. Louis, the game went into overtime and overlapped the start of the Los Angeles Clippers' key NBA playoff game against Memphis at Staples Center. Because of the conflict, Fox Sports West displayed the Kings and Clippers game in a split-screen format, something that made neither fan base happy. Clippers fans were able to catch that game on a full screen on TNT. Wednesday afternoon, Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket issued this apology: “We sincerely apologize to the Kings and the Clippers and their fans,” said Steve Simpson, senior vice president and general manager for Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket. “We didn't serve them as well we should have with our coverage of last night's games.

Prime Ticket will broadcast a signing day special next Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Among the players scheduled to appear are Jabril Frazier of Verbum Dei, Tre Watson of Corona Centennial and Rashaad Penny of Norwalk. St. Bonaventure quarterback Ricky Town will discuss his decision to commit to USC after being committed to Alabama. Eric.sondheimer@latimes.com

Now that Time Warner Cable has beaten Fox Sports for the TV rights to the Los Angeles Dodgers, it's time for the loser to make a dramatic move in retaliation. And that should be lowering the price of its Prime Ticket cable channel next year after it stops carrying the Dodgers. After all, the Dodgers are the channel's marquee property and without them, ratings for Prime Ticket will take a hit. The fee for Prime Ticket to distributors such as DirecTV and Time Warner Cable is about $2.50 a month per-subscriber, according to industry research firm SNL Kagan.

Starting to get excited? The most expensive baseball team in the history of the universe is scheduled to play its first spring game Saturday. Only you will not be able to watch it. In fact, you'll be able to watch fewer than half as many Dodgers spring games from Arizona as you could last year. The Dodgers' current broadcast schedule for their 2013 games from Camelback Ranch calls for only seven games to be televised. Last spring the Dodgers had 15 games on television from Phoenix.

FoxSports West and Prime Ticket will show classic Kings and Ducks games from their respective Stanley Cup runs in place of games that have been canceled through Oct. 24 because of the NHL lockout. Games from the Ducks' 2003 championship run will be shown in a block the next two Tuesdays, and games from the Kings' recent run will be shown the next two Wednesdays. A Fox spokeswoman said each block will consist of two games of 2 1/2 hours each, starting with the first round. If more games are canceled more “classic” games are likely to be aired.

Prime Ticket and the Mighty Ducks have reached agreement on a five-year contract in which the regional cable network will carry games involving Anaheim's NHL expansion team beginning next season. Prime Ticket, which televises all of the Kings' games, becomes the first local television entity to carry two hockey teams. The deal with the Ducks, announced on Prime Ticket's "Press Box" show Monday night, calls for 25 televised games in 1993-94, 30 the next season, 35 the next two and 40 in 1997-98.

Bill Daniels, majority owner of Prime Ticket Network, announced at a news conference Thursday that he has hired John Severino, a former president and general manager of KABC-TV, as president of the regional cable sports network. Daniels also announced that since July 1, he has owned 83.3% of the network, which was previously a 50-50 venture with Jerry Buss. Buss retains a minority interest, and Severino is also a minority partner, but he declined to say what percentage he owns.

San Diego State has reached an agreement in principle with Prime Ticket to televise eight football games and eight basketball games next season, said John Wadas, SDSU associate athletic director. The plan is to simulcast all 16 Prime Ticket games with XTRA, the Aztecs' radio station next season. SDSU will sell its own advertising time on Prime Ticket, the same deal it has with XTRA.

Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket has reached agreement with the Southern Section on a "long-term agreement" for web and television coverage. The new contract begins in 2014. Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket have been televising games since 1997 when it began a local game of the week. The contract is for six years, according to a source who was not authorized to speak publicly about the agreement. Eric.sondheimer@latimes.com

There are lots of intriguing matchups on television and being streamed live on the Internet this weekend. On Friday night, Mission Viejo-Redlands East Valley will be broadcast by Prime Ticket. Venice-Dorsey will be broadcast live by Time Warner Cable. The Sylmar-San Fernando game will also be broadcast by TWC airing at midnight. On Fox Sports West's Prep Zone, the following games will be streamed live: Crenshaw-St. John Bosco, San Clemente-Edison, Valencia-Loyola and Chaminade-Notre Dame.

NEW YORK - The Dodgers waited 32 years to return to the Bronx. What's another day? The Dodgers' game against the New York Yankees on Tuesday was rained out and rescheduled for Wednesday as part of a day-night doubleheader at Yankee Stadium. The first game is scheduled for 1:05 p.m. and the second for 7:05 p.m. Hyun-Jin Ryu, who was scheduled to start Tuesday, will pitch in the first game. Ryu will pitch against former Dodger Hiroki Kuroda. Chris Capuano is expected to be activated from the 15-day disabled list to start the second game.

It's one thing to leave your heart in San Francisco, quite another to lose your mind there like Don Mattingly . Has there ever been a more ridiculous comment offered by a Dodgers manager, and take into account Tom Lasorda said a lot of ridiculous stuff while on the job, than what Mattingly said Sunday? The Dodgers lost three straight to the Giants, whom they will probably have to beat if they are to win a division title. And Mattingly said: "I feel better about our club walking out of here than I did walking in. " My apologies to Mike D'Antoni for thinking he was the most clueless coach in town.

Tuesday night, when the defending champion Los Angeles Kings opened defense of the Stanley Cup title at St. Louis, the game went into overtime and overlapped the start of the Los Angeles Clippers' key NBA playoff game against Memphis at Staples Center. Because of the conflict, Fox Sports West displayed the Kings and Clippers game in a split-screen format, something that made neither fan base happy. Clippers fans were able to catch that game on a full screen on TNT. Wednesday afternoon, Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket issued this apology: “We sincerely apologize to the Kings and the Clippers and their fans,” said Steve Simpson, senior vice president and general manager for Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket. “We didn't serve them as well we should have with our coverage of last night's games.

Kathryn (Kitty) Cohen has been promoted from vice president of finance for Prime Ticket to general manager of the regional sports cable network. Cohen, who becomes one of the highest-ranking female executives in sports television, replaces Roger Werner, who served as president of Prime Ticket for two years. Werner left the company in August when the sale of Prime Ticket Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) was completed.

Prime Ticket, a cable television sports network, will televise several California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section championship events. The agreement calls for Prime Ticket to broadcast the Southern Section's football, basketball and girls volleyball championships. The cable network will show the boys 5-A basketball championship on March 7 from the Sports Arena. The deal also calls for options on the Southern Section track and field finals and selected basketball games.